Category: Art
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When the Painting Breathed: A Visit to the Museum der Bildenden Kunst
It strikes me now that Love Magic was never meant to be merely observed. Its power lies in making the viewer complicit — in collapsing the distance between scholarship and participation.
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A Study in Flesh and Spirit
“Friday,” she said. Her accent was old, vowels elongated, consonants softened. “It is still Friday?”
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On Ruskin, Lawrence, and the Perils of Pretty Words
A strange sort of prophet, Ruskin. One who trembled before the world he observed, but never truly entered it.
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Veronica Speaks: On Ruskin, Murder, and the Beauty of a Shattered Truth
I believed a beautiful lie. And I acted on it.
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When Stones Speak: Ruskin, Heidegger, and the Sacred in Everyday Things
A feather falls in China, and something ripples in New York.
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The Green Man and the Power of Art
Lillian, arms folded, studied the piece. “Magnificent is one word for it.”
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Ley Lines and the Ties That Bind: Power Beyond Ownership
To truly “own” the energy of ley lines, one must forge a connection that transcends mere property rights.
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How might Stonehenge have been experienced and used by people in the prehistoric past?
What if, because of its form, Stonehenge possesses a unique, magical agency or potency that manifests in being experienced and or used as diversely as Jacquetta Hawkes has suggested?
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The Western Esoteric Traditions (Part 5)
In this, Jung took the view from Jewish magic that ‘guardian angels’ could be pretty much the same thing as one’s daimon.
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Art & Cognition: False Images in the Poetry of Spenser and Sidney
During the English reformation ‘images’ were especially suspect. They were seen as impersonators, their deceptiveness offering nothing more than a temptation to idolatry and damnation (Tassi, 24). Both Spenser and Sidney were well aware of this and perhaps they conjured up the ‘false images’ in their own poetry with a view to teaching readers about…